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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I thought I was pretty sell suited to answer that question because having grown up in Northern California but lived and worked in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain & Japan over 11 years I had seen quite a few societies and work environments. And that is what we’ll do.” Now they are partners.

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[The Philippines] Harnessing Apps To Tackle Traffic

YoungUpstarts

Trip Barker , a community-based trip planner for mass transit systems through which users can share real-time weather, traffic, and events with their community, won the Best App Award and P100,000.00 plus a nomination to the 2014 Mobile Premier Awards at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain next February.

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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

YoungUpstarts

All Lyft drivers must be friendly, community-oriented drivers who love meeting new people, who can pass a phone screen, an in-person meeting and background & DMV record checks. An online and mobile community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world. Task Rabbit.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

ShareVolution As for the pitches today, first, Daniel McPherson from Australia pitched ShareVolution , an app store for the Microsoft SharePoint community. Last up, Fortunato Cardenas from Barcelona, Spain, presented Green Earth Aerogels , a nano-materials company in Barcelona, Spain focused on developing insulation gels from rice.

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What’s it Like Being a VC?

Both Sides of the Table

I went to Ibiza in Spain with my wife and in-laws before we were married. Running a local community / mentorship program – I run a group called LaunchPad LA. You get on a plane at a moment’s notice because a senior customer agreed to meet you. You call in from your vacation because you’ve had a service outage.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

It was the closest I could get to Spain. I didn’t have someone willing to offer me a job in Spain. I thought if I could live and work in Spain I could become bilingual, but I never got the opportunity. How should we as entrepreneurs and as a community be acting? [00:52:12] It’s actually true.

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How to get creative with your domain name registration

The Next Web

The domain name choice just made sense for the community-focused company, says Badal. “We We want new members to join the Grouper community and have an epic adventure with their friends, so it was an easy choice for us.”. Although extremely popular in Spain itself, up-and-coming crowdfunding platform indievoic.es Indievoic.es.

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